'There are tanks... and artillery shelling, and all kinds of weapons fired in the area,' says Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko. 'There is no city center left. Everybody is hiding in bunkers.'
Russian forces ramped up attacks across Ukraine Saturday, pushing deeper into besieged Mariupol, while the southern city of Mykolaiv reeled from a deadly rocket attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian troops sleeping in their barracks.
"There are tanks... and artillery shelling, and all kinds of weapons fired in the area. There is no city center left."Mariupol remains under Ukrainian control as it endures incessant bombardment from Russian forces encircling the city of more than 400,000 residents. "There are tanks... and artillery shelling, and all kinds of weapons fired in the area," Mayor Vadym Boichenko told the outlet."There is no city center left. Everybody is hiding in bunkers."
Intense street fighting in central Mariupol is reportedly hindering efforts to rescue an unknown number of civilians believed to be trapped inside the city's Drama Theater following an alleged Russian
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